republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/hb-336.md

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Bill	Nonpayment of wages; investigations.	Nonpayment of wages; investigations. Authorizes the Commissioner of Labor and Industry, if he acquires information during an investigation of a complaint of an employer's failure or refusal to pay wages and that information creates a reasonable belief that other employees of the same employer may not have been paid wages, to investigate whether the employer has failed or refused to make a required payment of wages to other employees. The measure also provides that if the Commissioner finds in the course of such investigation that the employer has committed a violation, the Commissioner may institute proceedings on behalf of any employee against his employer. In such proceedings, the Commissioner is not required to have obtained a written complaint of the violation or the written and signed consent of any employee. This bill is identical to SB 49.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	HB 336	Virginia HB 336 (2020)	bill		enacted	Marcia S. "Cia" Price	3	25	7	2020-01-01	2020-03-10	openstates	ocd-bill/499203a4-004b-449d-8403-ce581d73b0de	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB336	d97866e6af1277da3cf4729167c59566c594f7726b6d71283ca074760c0bce30	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 336 (2020) — Nonpayment of wages; investigations.

Nonpayment of wages; investigations. Authorizes the Commissioner of Labor and Industry, if he acquires information during an investigation of a complaint of an employer's failure or refusal to pay wages and that information creates a reasonable belief that other employees of the same employer may not have been paid wages, to investigate whether the employer has failed or refused to make a required payment of wages to other employees. The measure also provides that if the Commissioner finds in the course of such investigation that the employer has committed a violation, the Commissioner may institute proceedings on behalf of any employee against his employer. In such proceedings, the Commissioner is not required to have obtained a written complaint of the violation or the written and signed consent of any employee. This bill is identical to SB 49.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0206) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB336ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Impact statement from DPB (HB336) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Commerce and Labor (13-Y 0-N) — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N) — 6–1 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (38-Y 2-N) — 38–2 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Labor and Commerce (16-Y 6-N) — 16–6 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Passage (62-Y 37-N) — 61–37 (pass) · lower
• Referred from General Laws — 0–0 (fail) · lower

Sponsors

• Marcia S. "Cia" Price — primary (person)
• Clinton L. Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
• Jeffrey M. Bourne — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph C. Lindsey — cosponsor (person)
• Karrie K. Delaney — cosponsor (person)
• Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
• Lamont Bagby — cosponsor (person)
• Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
• Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
• Paul E. Krizek — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney T. Willett — cosponsor (person)
• Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2020-01-01 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102626D introduction
• 2020-01-01 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2020-01-16 Referred from General Laws
• 2020-01-16 Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce referral-committee
• 2020-01-21 Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
• 2020-01-28 Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N)
• 2020-01-30 Reported from Labor and Commerce (16-Y 6-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-03 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-04 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2020-02-05 Read third time and passed House (62-Y 37-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-05 VOTE: Passage (62-Y 37-N)
• 2020-02-06 Impact statement from DPB (HB336)
• 2020-02-06 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2020-02-06 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
• 2020-02-17 Reported from Commerce and Labor (13-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-19 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-20 Passed Senate (38-Y 2-N) passage
• 2020-02-25 Enrolled
• 2020-02-25 Impact statement from DPB (HB336ER)
• 2020-02-25 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-02-26 Signed by President
• 2020-03-03 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2020
• 2020-03-03 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 10, 2020
• 2020-03-10 Approved by Governor-Chapter 206 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/499203a4-004b-449d-8403-ce581d73b0de. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).